The ad is on the front cover of the new Scientific American (May, 2002), and in the terminal on the OS X desktop, there is a "Microsoft" (and an "Adobe Photoshop") process running. It's possible that the IE button is trademarked and would require permission for use in an ad.
How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are
3.155 x 10^7, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand,
who could forget that, to within half a percent, pi seconds is a
nanocentury.
-- Tom Duff, Bell Labs
Ugh. Hemos must not have taken his Immodium A-D this morning when he let this little piece of crap slip by. Empirical evidence is not proof by any means.
In the 1960's, a ground array of 19 detectors spread over 8 square kilometers was built at Volcano Ranch, New Mexico, by a team led by John Linsley. In 1963, his team reported an observation of a cosmic ray with an energy greater than 10^20 eV. Since then, several large detector arrays have been built to search for very high energy csomic rays. One such detector, called the Fly's Eye, and built in the Utah desert, observed a cosmic ray shower in 1991 that at its maximum contained 200 billion particles in the shower. The energy of the primary particle was 3 x 10^20 eV, the highest energy cosmic ray ever observed. While the composition of the primary particle isn't known with certain, the best guess is that it was a moderate mass nucleus (something like oxygen).
If mini black holes can be created with collisions on the order of 5*10^11eV(=500GeV), then these cosmic rays should have produced mini black holes. There is no evidence that these much more energetic cosmic ray showers created a black hole, so I think we can safely say that mini black holes either are not produced by subatomic particles or that they have no noticable effect on normal matter.
...if the FBI and the American people will accept the possible outcome that these terrorists acted alone. IMO they were intelligent enough; the FAA doesn't just give any stupid shmoe a commerical pilot's license.
It's ironic how Sun released the source code one day after I got MS word 2000 to work using the latest nightly wine.
Anyway, cheers to Sun for freeing their software.:))
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...by using cygwin and this very informative site.
The ad is on the front cover of the new Scientific American (May, 2002), and in the terminal on the OS X desktop, there is a "Microsoft" (and an "Adobe Photoshop") process running. It's possible that the IE button is trademarked and would require permission for use in an ad.
How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are 3.155 x 10^7, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand, who could forget that, to within half a percent, pi seconds is a nanocentury.
-- Tom Duff, Bell Labs
...you must outbid me, John Romero. Hey, if someone would buy it for $1e5, why not up the ante to $1.2e5 to help make up for the Diakatana bust?
Ugh. Hemos must not have taken his Immodium A-D this morning when he let this little piece of crap slip by. Empirical evidence is not proof by any means.
If mini black holes can be created with collisions on the order of 5*10^11eV(=500GeV), then these cosmic rays should have produced mini black holes. There is no evidence that these much more energetic cosmic ray showers created a black hole, so I think we can safely say that mini black holes either are not produced by subatomic particles or that they have no noticable effect on normal matter.
...if the FBI and the American people will accept the possible outcome that these terrorists acted alone. IMO they were intelligent enough; the FAA doesn't just give any stupid shmoe a commerical pilot's license.
...Darned buggy slashcode... :p
;)
Who cares if it's offtopic as long as it's true and affects us all?
Wondering how this release stacks up to previous ones in terms of performance? Check out this page.
--rimdo
It's ironic how Sun released the source code one day after I got MS word 2000 to work using the latest nightly wine. Anyway, cheers to Sun for freeing their software. :))